The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

He conquers who endures.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.

You are beaten to earth?
Well, well, what's that?
Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat.
But to lie there – that's a disgrace.

Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Life is not easy for any of us. We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.